Status:

TERMINATED

The Effect of Probiotics on Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Lead Sponsor:

Rabin Medical Center

Conditions:

Liver Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) has been suggested to be the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the general population in the Western World. In advanced stages of NAFLD, steatohepa...

Detailed Description

Probiotics may interfere with the development of NASH by several mechanisms. Data from an uncontrolled clinical trial in NASH patients show promising results, with improvement of liver enzymes in trea...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Controls- healthy volunteers, male and female, above 18 years.
  • NAFLD group - patients with histological proven NAFLD, male and female, above 18 years.

Exclusion

  • Controls
  • those who will be found to have fatty liver in abdominal ultra sound
  • any participant who will take antibiotics for any indication for more than 1 week during the study period or before recruitment to the study
  • any participant who had lost more than 10% of baseline body weight during the study period.
  • NAFLD group
  • those who will be found to have any concomitant liver disease (i.e., HBV/HCV/HIV/EBV/CMV infection
  • autoimmune hepatitis
  • metabolic liver disease: Wilson's disease, cholestatic liver disease: PBC/PSC, etc.)
  • any participant who will take antibiotics for any indication for more than 1 week during the study period or before recruitment to the study
  • any participant who had lost more than 10% of baseline body weight during the study period

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

38 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00808990

Start Date

February 1 2013

End Date

September 1 2015

Last Update

April 8 2016

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Rabin Medical Center

Petah Tikva, Israel, 49100